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Why isn't sprint car racing more popular in the south? 

I don't know the answer to that but they sure do love their dirt late model racing.

Stan Meissner

I see 2 410 races since 2015 in Saskatchewan. I suspect that must have been Estevan, an hour or so north of Minot. Seems to me the only logical place. Can anyone confirm that?

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Too fast to follow for them.  Have you ever ordered "fast food" in the South?

Only place you get a table number at a McDonalds 

Going to the World Finals is an education on this. Southern fans in general don’t love the sprints, maybe because they’re nothing like stock cars which is big down there. 

Not enough room for "Mountain Dew" or "Bojangles" on a sprint car wing 

Yes, those 2 races were at Estevan...

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Being from the South, I won’t blast back at your dumbass comment for a couple reasons.

1, I'm not going to stereotype all Northerners as widow licking waterheads in a blanket statement, much like the one you did on Southerners.

2, I would hate for you to trip and fall running up the basement stairs to tell your mommy and daddy that a mean ole man from the South is picking on you. Plus, if you did that, once mommy calmed you down and made it all better, she would make you drive to the store to get a case of Busch Light and a carton of Pall Mall 100's.

Unlike you, I'm sure most people are like me in the since that when I travel to other regions of the country, I like to partake in local cuisines. Not eat the same old shit I could get on any corner of the nation.

I can't speak for all the South, but I can for Texas. We do love sprint cars, but unfortunately we have more 360 racing than 410's, actually 410 racing is nonexistent here, other than the WoO making the trip here once a year. 360 racing doesn't draw the attention of the sprint car masses like 410's do.

410 teams don't come down here because of the lack of fan base, it’s because of how far the teams would have to travel between tracks. Other than that, we help keep PPV companies in business and try to make annual trips to a few big races up North.

The South gets stereotyped as one big area where everyone is alike but of course that’s not true. 

I think when we say Southerners don’t like sprint cars were really speaking of the southeast from Virginia to Georgia and the Deep South like Alabama. 

Texas and Oklahoma are obviously big areas for sprint cars. 

Someones TRIGGERED!!!

You don't have to travel down to the Carolinas to find late model fans. I remember many years ago when I used to frequent the Hagerstown Speedway they would run sprints and late models, when the late model feature was run first many of the fans would leave after that feature because they didn't really like sprinters. Those were some good days there, twin 25's for sprints and latemodels. The late models there were some of the best in the country at the time.

Ha - I think you're thinking about how fast people talk not how fast they go.  Otherwise, why would central PA import drivers from the south (Bobby Davis, Jr , Greg Hodnett)?  And I'm pretty sure more World of Outlaws feature winners started out in West Memphis than any other track.  But yeah, sprint car racing is pretty much non existent in the mid-south now.  Still seems to be popular though given the crowds I've seem when the traveling series show up.  I think there is just not as much money here as other parts of the country and sprint cars run on money as much as methanol. That, and the fact that the back-gate promotors have strangled the life out of the racing.

Stock car racing in the South grew out of moonshine runners hopping up their stock appearing cars to outrun the law. Its a tradition

They like to keep it that way....

Interesting how HH guys have managed to piss off 2 different localities today: the South & New Zealand

Everybody's different & has their own traditions

At the tender age of 10, 1960, we moved from NYC to small town rural Virginia... what a culture shock! We hated segregation, but loved Southern cooking & music... thats where I got hooked on dirt track racing. Not far from Hagerstown, maybe 100 miles South. Thats where my hero Smokey Stover (Modified coupe or "jalopy" driver) got badly mangled up driving an early version of a sprint car (maybe it was a super modified, hard to tell the difference back then)

I'm not very nationalistic, except for sports.... soccer, hockey & F1??? nah....

Different strokes for different folks! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUUhDoCx8zc

138.4 miles to be exact

Amazing in a couple of hundred miles between Gettysburg & Staunton, Va., how drastically opinions change about the Civil War.

Actually not that amazing...... "War is Hell": Gen William Tecunseh Sherman

No doubt everyone is different and has their own traditions. But a dumbass stereotyping a whole region of the country deserves to be called out ....

Seems like history is the theme of the day in HH. 

I've been to about 20 of your 50 states. PA to Fl to Wa to Az, Ca and many in between . The landscape is beautiful but the best part is meeting people from each of those areas with so many different ways of life. Everyone I met was a good memory.

It would be a terrible cross country experience if everyone was the same. With the same foods , hobbies entertainment and traditions. You guys are rich with diversity, enjoy it.

Even though I may not know you, I 
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"Amazing in a couple of hundred miles between Gettysburg & Staunton, Va., how drastically opinions change about the Civil War."

In Missouri, it is often county by county.